教師如果在教學中利用文本挖掘素材,延伸話題讓學生創編故事,提煉主題,融會知識,貼近生活,活用知識,在於情於理、情景交融的語言學習環境中去構思情節,活用詞句生成語篇,就可以使學生活化知識、生成技能,從而激發學生的語言潛能,使其將生活背景融入其中,讓思維馳騁,學以致用,讓學生在獲得語言的學習價值的同時,也能收獲語言的育人價值。
人教版高中英語教師用書在教材使用說明中指出:“教師應從實際出發,靈活而又有創造性地使用教科書。”的確,教師不是“教教材”,而是“用教材”。教師要從學生的實際需要和語言知識結構出發,靈活而又有創造性地使用教材,使教材真正為我所用。另外,教師要從教材所提供的文化背景角度出發,培養學生的人文素養和思維品質。例如,選修八“Unit 4 Pygmalion”涉及一則希臘神話故事。在學習《皮格馬利翁》劇情時,學生扮演劇中人物,朗讀人物對話及劇情獨白,營造繪聲繪色的語境,結合故事背景、故事情節,複述劇情,呈現劇情中的人文素材。接著,學生圍繞“皮格馬利翁效應”的短文內容,根據寫作要點,拓展思維空間,進行寫作。
讀寫任務:閱讀下麵的短文,然後按照要求寫一篇150詞左右的英語短文。
Pygmalion,a sculptor and prince of Cyprus,created an ivory statue of his ideal woman.As a result,Galatea he called was so beautiful that he immediately fell in love with it.He begged the goddess Aphrodite to breathe life into the statue and make her his own.Aphrodite granted Pygmalion his wish,the statue came to life and the couple married and lived happily ever after.
The story was also the basis of George Bernard Shaw's play“Pygmalion”.In Shaw's play,Professor Henry Higgins claims he can take a Cockney flower girl,Eliza Doolittle,and turn her into a duchess.But,as Eliza herself points out to Higgins' friend Pickering,it isn't what she learns or does that determines whether she will become a duchess,but how she's treated.